The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)

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Synopsis
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction—which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
158 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317605966
Related ISBNs:
9781138311220, 9781315748405, 9781138813052
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Ian A. Smith
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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